And what do you need to be afraid of? Do you need to be afraid to die, or do you just need to be afraid of noticeable change? What if someone tries to use trade to convince the US that they aren't the greatest nation in the world? That's using fear to threaten us, isn't it? - ThreadSky

whatdoiknowjr.bsky.social • 4 days ago

And what do you need to be afraid of? Do you need to be afraid to die, or do you just need to be afraid of noticeable change? What if someone tries to use trade to convince the US that they aren't the greatest nation in the world? That's using fear to threaten us, isn't it?

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whatdoiknowjr.bsky.social•4 days ago

The fear of mass death on American soil didn't need to remain to fundamentally change everything. Everyone felt like there was a change in the status quo due to 9/11. What if the real thing to be scared of was changing what you thought couldn't be changed.

whatdoiknowjr.bsky.social•4 days ago

What happens if the status quo is challenged when it comes to working in person, sending kids to school, wearing masks in public? Its rediculous to blame a disease, to declare war on a disease. Its not a country. Or a concept. The disease isn't making us stay home, wear masks, get vaccines . . .

whatdoiknowjr.bsky.social•4 days ago

The people telling us that life has to fundamentally change are the enemies. They're the ones using fear to challenge the status quo. They want America to change. That's terrorism. We're at war with them. We've had two decades of America being at war with the concept that change is scary.

whatdoiknowjr.bsky.social•4 days ago

There were tons of people that saw the status quo as not publically being racist or misogynist. They just needed someone to remind them that when they were young, it wasn't the status quo. Someone made you change from that, and you forgot about it!

whatdoiknowjr.bsky.social•4 days ago

There are tons of people living unexamined lives that were raised to fear a shift in the status quo, but were intentionally oblivious enough to let change happen gradually. And then someone showed up to yell in their faces that change was happening, you have to stop it right now!

whatdoiknowjr.bsky.social•4 days ago

The enemy is fear, and specifically, fear of change. Any change is bad. The enemy says we need to change. The goal is to get back to that one point in time that you remember where America was perfect and everything was good. To roll back everything between where we are and where that is.

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